Follow Ups
After my post about Terrorist Alert Orange and the harassment I received for taking public domain snaps on public property, I received a ton of helpful links from peeps about my rights as a photographer. The best one comes via kottke.org and explains “Your Rights When Stopped or Confronted for Photography“. Unfortunately, I’m not the only one who is being confronted and shook down for their public use of digital photography. Know your rights kids. The thing that gets me about the whole debacle is that the cop in the bank had obviously seen me outside through some sort of surveillance camera. So while it is alright for me to be video taped on public property by the bank it is NOT alright for me to turn my camera on the bank. That don’t sit right.

A few days a ago I took an unharassed snap of a a soldier stencil. Brian has tracked the origins of this public art to a guy who runs a little site called WithRemote. Cool stencils. Check out his epic senior thesis on street art.